Grandpa & his dogs

Aunt Mozelle continues with her memories--dad loved all animals and always had several dogs--mostly Coon hunting dogs. Late in the afternoon I can still hear him say " Blanche you got time to cook my dogs some corn bread?"she always did and his dogs got sweet milk and corn bread for supper.Dad had a remedy for whatever ailed his dogs,cows,or horses. There wasn't a veterinarian in any of the small towns and rural areas so Dad used remedies that grandpa and granny Miller passed down. I remember him sending me to the Fletchers to borrow some sulphur. He used lots of kerosene,linament,grease from fat meat and sulphur. All of the neighboring men would come by and ask him what he would do for certain illness's. Every week he would go coon hunting with some of his friends- they would come pick him & his dogs up & they would stay out real late sometimes if the dogs was finding coons to tree. He could tell which dog had the coon treed by the sound of its voice. When it was time to call the dogs back & go to the house- he had a horn--made from a cows horn -that he would blow and his dogs would know it was their master & come but the other mans dogs wouldn't as it wasn't the right sound for them. He traded and sold dogs like some do horses.